Experience Downton Abbey as a Video Game, Complete with Missions from Lady Mary and Catty Remarks from the Staff

Last month, we watched as one Downton Abbey fan paid homage to the cherished BBC drama by re-creating the eponymous estate in gingerbread. Today, we learn of another Downton-ian’s loving, homemade tribute to the SAG Award–winning series—this time, an ingenious Super Nintendo video-game mock-up that might horrify the Dowager Countess. The clip was created by Bill Kiley, who tellsEntertainment Weeklythat he was motivated to give the Crawleys the video-game treatment as a way of uniting what he perceives as his generation’s two dominant fascinations. “It just seems like everyone my age is really into Super Nintendo and Downton Abbey right now,” he explained.

Kiley began by simplifying the show’s theme song down to a video-game-befitting synthesizer remix. Over “a few really late nights,” the Downton buff culled images from video games includingClock Towerto mock up the resulting excerpt. By assuming the role of a new Downton footman, players are asked to complete several tasks from Lady Mary (spying on Mrs. Patmore to see if she is trying to poison Matthew), Anna (“If you can fluff five pillows in 20 seconds, I will let you read a letter from my jailed husband”), and Robert.

In dialogue that is spot-on for Super Nintendo (but might make Downton Abbey creator Julian Fellowes cringe), Lord Grantham asks, at one point, “Footman, I require assistance! I have misplaced 10 of my most cherished cigars . . . I have guests coming over for a fancy cigar party. Without them, I’ll be ruined . . . I need you to explore the estate and the surrounding grounds for my fancy cigars.”) Take a look at video, and suggest your own missions for Downton's newest imaginary servant, in the space below.